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Mary Evelyn Tucker
Mary Evelyn Tucker is Professor of Religion at
Bucknell University in Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in world
religions, Asian religions, and religion and ecology.
She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University
in the history of religions, specializing in Confucianism
in Japan. She has published Moral and Spiritual
Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The
Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken, 1630–1714
(Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press,
1989). She co-edited Worldviews and Ecology:
Religion, Philosophy, and the Environment
(Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1994), Buddhism and
Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds
(Cambridge, Mass.: Center for the Study of
World Religions, 1997; distributed by Harvard
University Press), Confucianism and Ecology:
The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth, and Humans
(Cambridge, Mass.: Center for the Study of
World Religions, 1998; distributed by Harvard
University Press) and Hinduism and Ecology:
The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water
(Cambridge, Mass.: Center for the Study of World
Religions, 2000; distributed by Harvard University
Press). She and her husband, John Grim, have directed
a series of ten conferences on World Religions
and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World
Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School from
1996–1998. In October 1998 they held two
culminating conferences from the series at the
United Nations and the American Museum of Natural
History in New York. They are the series editors
for the ten volumes that are being published from
the conferences by the CSWR (distributed by Harvard
University Press). They are also editors of the
Orbis Press book series on Ecology and Justice.
Mary Evelyn has been a committee member of the
Environmental Sabbath program at the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) since 1986 and is
vice-president of the American Teilhard Association.
She is also a member of the Earth Charter Drafting
Committee. She is also a founding member and co-cordinator
of the Forum on Religion and Ecology.
John Grim
John Grim is a professor, and Chair of the Department
of Religion at Bucknell University, Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania. As a historian of religions, John
undertakes annual field studies in American Indian
lifeways among the Apsaalooke/Crow peoples of
Montana and the Swy-ahl-puh/Salish peoples of
the Columbia River Plateau in eastern Washington.
Raised in the Missouri drift prairies of North
Dakota, John went to the urban environs of the
Bronx to study with Thomas Berry at Fordham University.
There, he completed a doctoral dissertation on
Anishinaabe/Ojibway healing practitioners, later
published as, The Shaman: Patterns of Religious
Healing Among the Ojibway Indians (Norman,
Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983). With
his wife, Mary Evelyn Tucker, he has co-edited
Worldviews and Ecology: Religion, Philosophy,
and the Environment (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis,
1994), a book discussing perspectives on the environmental
crisis from world religions and contemporary philosophy.
John and Mary Evelyn are coordinators of the Forum
on Religion and Ecology which is an outgrowth
on the conference series they organized at the
Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR)
at Harvard Divinity School. John is also president
of the American Teilhard Association, which explores
issues in religion and science especially in light
of the thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and
the late twentieth century reworking of Teilhard’s
thought by Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme.
Donald K.
Swearer
Donald K. Swearer is the Charles and Harriet Cox
McDowell Professor of Religion at
Swarthmore College where he is on the faculty
of the Asian Studies and Environmental Studies
Departments. His principal research has focused
on Buddhism, especially in Thailand-Southeast
Asia. Recent and forthcoming monographs include:
Becoming the Buddha (forthcoming, 2003),
Mountains, Myths, and History: Sacred Mountains
in Northern Thailand and Their Legends (forthcoming,
2003), The Legend of Queen Cama: Odhiramsi’s
Camadevivamsa, A Translation and Commentary (Albany,
N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1998),
and The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
(Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press,
1995). He is on the board of the Forum on Religion
and Ecology and has authored several articles
on Buddhism and ecology including: “The Hermeneutics
of Buddhist Ecology in Contemporary Thailand:
Buddhadasa and Dhammapitaka,” in Buddhism
and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and
Deeds, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and Duncan
Ryuken Williams (Cambridge, Mass.: Center for
the Study of World Religions, 1997; distributed
by Harvard University Press) 21–44; “Rights
Because of Intrinsic Nature or Responsibilities
Because of Mutual Interdependence?” in Buddhist
Perspectives on the Earth Charter (Boston:
Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, 1997);
“Buddhism and Ecology: Challenge and Promise,”
Earth Ethics vol. 10, no. 1 (1998): 19–22;
and “Principles and Poetry, Places and Stories:
The Resources of Buddhist Ecology,” Daedalus
vol. 130, no. 4 (2001): 225–41. He is particularly
interested in the intersection between nature
and culture.
Scott Slovic
Scott Slovic is Professor of Literature and environment
at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he also
chairs the English Department’s graduate
program in literature and environment. From 1992
to 1995, he served as the founding president of
the Association for the Study of Literature and
Environment (ASLE), and since 1995 he has edited
ASLE’s journal, ISLE: Interdisciplinary
Studies in Literature and Environment.
As director of Nevada’s Center for Environmental
Arts and Humanities from 1995 to 2001, he hosted
the North American Interdisciplinary Conference
on Environment and Community three times. Slovic
is the author and/or editor of ten books, including:
Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing:
Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell
Berry, Barry Lopez (Salt Lake City: University
of Utah Press, 1992), Getting Over the Color
Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of
the Southwest (Tuscon, Ariz.: University of
Arizona Press, 2001), and two additional volumes
The ISLE Reader: Ecocriticism, 1993–2003
(forthcoming, 2003) and What’s Nature
Worth? Exploring Narrative Expressions of Environmental
Values (forthcoming, 2003). He has published
more than sixty articles, many of which aim to
introduce general audiences or readers outside
of the field of literary studies to environmental
literature and ecocriticism. Slovic edits the
Credo Series for Milkweed Editions and the Environmental
Arts and Humanities Series for the University
of Nevada Press.
R. Craig Kochel
R. Craig Kochel is Professor of Geology at Bucknell
University where he teaches courses in geomorphology,
environmental geology, geologic hazards, hydrology,
and planetary geology. Kochel’s primary research
is in geomorphology (earth surface processes),
primarily rivers, hillslope, and barrier islands.
Much of his work has been on paleohydrology and
the geomorphic response to climate change. He
also studies the impact of catastrophic events
on the landscape and in the interaction between
the
landscape and humans (geologic hazards). Kochel
holds the B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College,
a M.S. from Southern Illinois University, and
a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin.
Before joining the faculty at Bucknell in 1990,
he taught at State University of New York, Fredonia,
Southern Illinois University, and University of
Virginia. Kochel is the author of more than fourty-five
research articles and the co-author of several
books. He is also past chair of the Quaternary
Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological
Society of America. Kochel has also been an active
participant in numerous events related to the
Forum on Religion and Ecology.
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